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Study Reveals Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Involving Opioids More Than Doubled

STONY BROOK, NY, November 5, 2018 – The opioid crisis in the United States appears to be gravely affecting more pregnant and postpartum women. In a study of pregnancy-associated deaths of women from 2007 to 2016...

November 5, 2018

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Nationally Recognized Microbiology Expert Named President of the Infectious Diseases Society of New York

STONY BROOK, NY, October 31, 2018 – Bettina Fries, MD, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has been named President of the Infectious...

October 31, 2018

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New Technology Designed to Prevent Network Hacking Licensed to LI Company

STONY BROOK, NY, October 24, 2018 – Hacking into communication networks remains a danger for companies and institutions during this digital age. In the search for more secure communications technologies designed to...

October 24, 2018

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Synthetic “Gene Thermometers” Show How Cells Endure Heat or Cold

Stony Brook, NY, October 22, 2018 – In the natural world, organisms, cells, and therefore genes respond and adjust to temperature changes on a regular basis. But when scientists study genes in the laboratory, the cells...

October 22, 2018

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Linguistic Red Flags from Facebook Posts Can Predict Future Depression Diagnoses

Research published in PNAS marries social media data with medical-outcomes data for the first time. Stony Brook, NY, October 19, 2018 – In any given year, depression affects more than six percent of the adult population...

October 19, 2018

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Studies Reveal Powerful Links Between Economic Development, Technology and Geopolitical Cooperation to Reduce Climate Change

Stony Brook, N.Y., October 17, 2018 –The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report that calls for urgent action on climate change, including an immediate and sharp increase in investment in...

October 17, 2018

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Targeting Pili Could be a key to Halting Antibiotic Resistance

Stony Brook, N.Y., October 3, 2018 – Antibiotic resistance is an urgent problem globally when treating many infections, and scientists continue to search for new ways to combat resistance. Now a team of scientists led...

October 3, 2018

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Study Reveals Racial Discrimination in Healthcare Leads to Patient Avoidance

Stony Brook, N.Y., October 2, 2018 – A survey of more than 37,000 adults age 18 and over in California with health insurance, indicates that while only 6 percent of that group experienced perceived racial or ethnic...

October 2, 2018

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Stony Brook Professor to Receive National Award for Sustainability Education

Stony Brook, NY, September 26, 2018 – Alex Orlov, PhD, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a faculty member of the Consortium for...

September 26, 2018

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Using Integrated Models to Assess NYC Flood Risks From Extreme Storms

Stony Brook, NY, September 26, 2018 – After Superstorm Sandy, the need to better understand stormwater flood risks and improve infrastructure in the metro area of New York City (NYC) became a priority. A new study, co...

September 26, 2018

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Bat Genome Research May Reveal Clues to Longevity

Stony Brook, NY, September 21, 2018 – Liliana M. Dávalos, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution in the Stony Brook University College of Arts and Sciences, has received a National Science...

September 21, 2018

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Researchers Prepare to Explore Extreme Lunar Environments

STONY BROOK, NY, September 19, 2018 — As the United States prepares to visit the surface of the Moon once again, scientists from the RIS4E node of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute...

September 19, 2018

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Lung Cancer Survivor Rates Higher Using Multidisciplinary Care Model

Published study of more than 4,000 patients reveals better survival compared to standard care STONY BROOK, NY, September 12, 2018 – An investigation of short-term and long-term survival outcomes of more than 4,000 lung...

September 12, 2018

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DNA Analysis and Artifact Finds Provide Lens into Barbarian Past

Stony Brook, NY, September 12, 2018 – By taking extensive DNA samples from the skulls of individuals buried in two European cemeteries from the 6th Century – one in Italy and one in Hungary – and combining that data...

September 12, 2018

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Historical Milestone Honors First MRI Image, Lauterbur Legacy at Stony Brook

STONY BROOK, NY, September 11, 2018 — In 1971, Paul Lauterbur, a chemistry professor at Stony Brook University was eating a hamburger at a Pennsylvania restaurant and had a “Eureka” moment about his nuclear magnetic...

September 11, 2018

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Adolescent Users of E-Cigarettes Exposed to Nearly as Much Nicotine as Smokers

STONY BROOK, N.Y., September 7, 2018 – A new study that looked at nicotine exposure of adolescent e-cigarette users, specifically those who use the ‘pod’ vaping devices (ie, Juul), found that levels of urinary...

September 7, 2018

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LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay

Scientists now know the fate of the vast majority of all Higgs bosons produced in the LHC Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson...

August 28, 2018

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Removing the Most Common p53 Mutation in Colorectal Cancer Halts Disease Progression

By genetically manipulating and removing the most common mutant form of the p53 gene that promotes colorectal cancer in humans, an international team of scientists demonstrated that this therapy reduces tumor growth and...

August 15, 2018

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Category: Research

Study Reveals Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Involving Opioids More Than Doubled

Nationally Recognized Microbiology Expert Named President of the Infectious Diseases Society of New York

New Technology Designed to Prevent Network Hacking Licensed to LI Company

Synthetic “Gene Thermometers” Show How Cells Endure Heat or Cold

Linguistic Red Flags from Facebook Posts Can Predict Future Depression Diagnoses

Studies Reveal Powerful Links Between Economic Development, Technology and Geopolitical Cooperation to Reduce Climate Change

Targeting Pili Could be a key to Halting Antibiotic Resistance

Study Reveals Racial Discrimination in Healthcare Leads to Patient Avoidance

Stony Brook Professor to Receive National Award for Sustainability Education

Using Integrated Models to Assess NYC Flood Risks From Extreme Storms

Bat Genome Research May Reveal Clues to Longevity

Researchers Prepare to Explore Extreme Lunar Environments

Lung Cancer Survivor Rates Higher Using Multidisciplinary Care Model

DNA Analysis and Artifact Finds Provide Lens into Barbarian Past

Historical Milestone Honors First MRI Image, Lauterbur Legacy at Stony Brook

Adolescent Users of E-Cigarettes Exposed to Nearly as Much Nicotine as Smokers

LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay

Removing the Most Common p53 Mutation in Colorectal Cancer Halts Disease Progression

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